TOM BRISLIN Hurry Up and Smell the Roses tombrislin.com Filled with smart, grown-up pop songs written and performed by a man making sense of the modern world, the debut album from this New Jersey-born, Nashville-based multi-instrumentalist is “adult contemporary” in the truest sense. Brislin has played keyboards for the likes of Yes, Meat Loaf and Debbie Harry, and here, amid classical-informed piano figures, unapologetically proggy ’80s synths,... 

Amy Heidemann and Nick Noonan, of Karmin, perform at Casio’s launch party for the new Privia digital piano line, Tuesday Sept 11, 2012, at Edison Ballroom in New York. (Photo by Diane Bondareff /Invision for Casio)   CASIO LAUNCHES NEW INNOVATIVE DIGITAL PIANOS Casio launched four new models in its Privia digital piano line at an exclusive press gathering at New York’s Edison Ballroom—while three of its sponsored artists—Karmin, Tom Brislin...